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Meanings of repulsiveness in anglès

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The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions.

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Usage of repulsiveness in anglès
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Both of these are mutilations of unquestioned repulsiveness to the untrained sense.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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He was a terrible brute, a big grizzly bear, ugly to repulsiveness.
A Rough Shaking
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Frail outcast-thevery scum of a blacks' camp, its repulsiveness was tragic.
Tropic Days
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
The Communist Manifesto
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Here we have in all its naked repulsiveness the Stoic theory of predestination.
The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
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They related the incident, which lost nothing of its repulsiveness by the relation:
In Search of the Okapi / A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
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What I sensed behind in those eyes chilled me with its repulsiveness and strangeness.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
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A fanatic zeal illumined it, taking away half its repulsiveness.
The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mor...
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Sometimes she covered him with hot kisses despite his repulsiveness.
The ice princess
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It was coloured by green shades of black-blue, and its shiny repulsiveness wasn't ugly.
The book of disquiet
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But in spite of his repulsiveness he had evidently experienced the natural activities of humanity.
Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
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There is no ugliness to equal in its repulsiveness the ugliness of a beautiful face.
The Seaboard Parish Volume 3
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It is many-legged and hairless, its hide resembling that of a newborn mouse in repulsiveness.
The Chessmen of Mars
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It has a strange repulsiveness for the "solid man" of business.
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
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The Messiah's sin-covering gaze did not for a moment dwell upon the repulsiveness of that carrion.
Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
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Mr. Malipizzo, for all his incredible repulsiveness, posed as an ardent and successful lover of women.
South Wind
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